Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Chapter 159 Relief for work

Compared with the imperial decree, Luo Bin returned to Wu County faster and reported to Li Ji what was happening in Luoyang.

It was late March.

Everything in Wu Land has revived, the temperature is comfortable and pleasant, and the spring breeze makes people drowsy.

Li Jian was sitting in the courtyard, with nearly a hundred scrolls of bamboo slips stacked on the left and right.

As Xia Houlan was sent by Li Ji to preside over the "four red water crossings", there was no bookboy around Li Ji, and there were many things that were inconvenient for servants to contact. Therefore, Li Ji could only organize the bamboo slips by himself, and carefully Listen carefully to what Luo Bin reported.

The attitudes of the important ministers that Luo Bin came into contact with, the movements of all parties in Luoyang, and the reactions in the court that he found out...

It wasn't until Luo Bin confirmed that the imperial court had decided to resettle the refugees in Yangzhou and ordered Yangzhou Governor Liu Bei to supervise the matter that Li Ji's expression changed slightly.

Immediately, Li Ji looked at the unconcealed fatigue on Luo Bin's face and said.

"Thank you for your hard work, please go down and rest first."

Watching Luo Bin leave, Li Ji silently commented in his heart.

Luo Bin has no talent in military and political affairs, but he is good because he comes from a poor background, his physical fitness is not inferior to that of ordinary generals, his communication skills are quite high, and his emotional intelligence and self-control ability are quite outstanding.

Therefore, Luo Bin not only deceived Yan Baihu as a spy before, but this time he was also ordered to go to Luoyang to contact an important minister.

Luo Bin galloped between Luoyang and Wujun, almost changing horses without changing people along the way. Li Jidu couldn't help but admire him and felt that Luo Bin might be more suitable to be a military general.

Immediately, Li Ji returned his attention to the court.

The factional fighting within the imperial court is undoubtedly becoming more and more obvious, and there are obvious traces of the emperor's balancing act.

The art of the emperor?

The way to balance?

Li Ji couldn't help but sigh, roughly understanding that Emperor Liu Hong was probably terribly confident at the moment.

The Yellow Turban Rebellion did not wake up the emperor Liu Hong and made him realize that the Han Dynasty was on the verge of collapse. On the contrary, it made the emperor Liu Hong more confident.

Looking at the life trajectory of Emperor Liu Hong, since the late emperor had no heirs, Liu Hong, who was originally just a clan member of the Han Dynasty, ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor at the age of ten. At that time, relatives of the Dou family controlled the government, and Emperor Lian Liu Hong They are just puppets supported by Dou's relatives.

Under this situation, the emperor Liu Hong quickly solved the problem of his relatives' exclusive power through a series of means. After taking power, he replaced the eunuchs and scholars in the court one after another. Killed batch after batch.

In terms of the way of an emperor, the emperor Liu Hong was undoubtedly qualified. His ability to control the court was astonishing, and he even openly sold his official positions and titles.

However, the emperor Liu Hong's pursuit of pleasure was even more extreme than Li Longji.

Selling an official position and winning a title is just for pleasure.

And from the current point of view, in the view of Emperor Liu Hong, even the millions of Yellow Turbans that swept across the seven continents of the Han Dynasty were eliminated in an instant, and the world was already impregnable.

'Or maybe the emperor Liu Hong also saw the shortcomings of the Han Dynasty, but he also knew that he was unable to change it, so he died in peace first, regardless of the raging flood behind him? '

Li Ji then thought about this possibility.

And I have to say, if Li Ji remembers correctly, the emperor Liu Hong indulged in sensuality, but his body was completely eviscerated and he died of illness at the age of thirty-two. In a sense, he really enjoyed half his life until his death.

It's a pity that Emperor Liu Hong probably didn't expect that after his death, Dong Zhuo would not only become his comrade, but also become his cheap son-in-law, right?
That is to say, Empress Dowager Dou died early, otherwise Dong Zhuo might not be able to be the stepfather of the emperor Liu Hong.

At present, the emperor Liu Hong seems to have no intention of giving up drinking or sex. On the contrary, he is content with controlling the government in such a balanced way.

For Li Ji, this is a good thing in a sense.

If the emperor Liu Hong, who is at the top of the power pyramid, does not change, the power structure of the entire Han Dynasty will not change much in the short term.

Perhaps, it was almost impossible for Liu Bei to win the title of "Yangzhou Shepherd" before the death of Emperor Liu Hong, but the official position of Yangzhou Governor and Wu County Governor was still quite stable.

Once the imperial decree arrives, Liu Bei will supervise the counties in Yangzhou to accommodate the refugees. This undoubtedly amplifies Liu Bei's power as the governor of Yangzhou to the extreme through "righteousness", and gives Li Ji the possibility to truly intervene and control other counties in Yangzhou.

More importantly, as Liu Bei succeeded in borrowing food from various places in Xuzhou, the number of refugees flowing towards Wu County through the Xuzhou Passage was increasing day by day.

During this period of time, every boat on the Yangtze River north of Wu County was almost on fire. The number of refugees taken to Wu County exceeded 100,000 as early as ten days ago.

Fortunately, Liu Bei's benevolence and reputation, under the secret guidance of Jia Xu, had completely spread among the refugees, and there was no trouble.

However, as the number of refugees gathering in the northern part of Wu County continues to increase, resettling the refugees has become an urgent priority.

The population of Wu County is less than one million, and the entire population of some slightly remote Wu County counties may not be more than 100,000.

Nowadays, as the number of refugees in the refugee camps continues to expand, not only is Mi Zhu's ability no longer able to grasp the situation, but also the daily supply of food to the refugee camps is a shocking figure. And Li Ji is definitely not a philanthropist. It is impossible to spend a huge amount of money and food just to send all the refugees to friendly counties.

Although Li Ji has sent people to continuously select various craftsmen, doctors or breeding talents from the refugees, and continuously send them to various places in Wu County for resettlement.

Especially the shipbuilding workshop that is being built, Li Ji has packed a large number of craftsmen of all types.

Even if some craftsmen are not good at shipbuilding, Lee Ji also plans to further build the shipbuilding workshop into a "technology" center in a certain sense.

When we have more energy, we will subdivide the shipbuilding workshop into different categories.

Papermaking, siege equipment, swords and weapons, etc...

It can be said that Li Ji had countless ideas in his mind before, but he just lacked enough talents to develop them for Li Ji.

In Li Ji's eyes, those craftsmen are no different from treasures.

As for the rest of the medical, breeding, farming and other talents, they are all currently in short supply in Wu County.

Doctors, in particular, made it possible for Li Ji to create a "military medical" system that he had already had in mind.

Breeding and farming talents are also in urgent need of Wu County.

Only after personally understanding the current situation of Wu County did Li Ji realize that compared to the Central Plains, Wu County was lagging behind in all aspects.

Various breeding and farming technologies are also far less advanced than those in the Central Plains.

Therefore, during this period, in addition to sitting in the middle, Li Ji spent almost no time every day to urgently create simple system architectures one after another, and then continued to select all kinds of talents from the refugee camps and put them in go.

In addition, Li Ji could not give up all the huge young labor force in the refugee camps to other counties in Yangzhou.

It should be noted that those young and strong laborers can not only be used as important productive forces, but can also be quickly transformed into the most important source of soldiers in troubled times.

Even though Wu County is currently completely unable to absorb and accommodate a large number of young and strong laborers, there is one method except "work-for-relief".

Although, this will make Wu County's already huge money and food expenses even heavier.

Today, Wujun only feeds the refugees with sand and gravel gruel to prevent them from starving to death.

However, if the "work-for-relief" approach is adopted, it will naturally be impossible to keep young people well-fed, and the food consumed will inevitably increase fivefold.

In the final analysis, there are still four words: "insufficient money and food"!
But once the vast majority of the refugees can be absorbed through the "relief for work" method, it will allow Wu County to completely complete the water conservancy plan that may take three to five years to complete in just one year.

So Lee Ji is waiting...

Waiting for the news from Shuzhong!

Waiting for the food from Shu!

At the same time, Li Ji was also frantically working on specific water conservancy plans involving the entire Wu County, turning the details of the water conservancy plans that were originally planned to be completed gradually within three to five years into something feasible at once.

In addition, Li Ji was also constantly recruiting scholars who were willing to become "temporary workers" through the "Rende Academy".

Although Li Ji knew through the deduction of the "strategy simulator" that as long as Zhao Yun delivered the bamboo slips to Liu Yan, he would definitely be able to gain something.

It was just the amount of money and grain Liu Yan was willing to pay, and when he would arrange for the money and grain to be transported out of central Sichuan and down the Yangtze River to Wu County.

These are factors that Li Ji needs to consider and be clear about, and cannot be implemented based on simple feelings and estimates.

Otherwise, once any unexpected error occurs, the error usually exceeds the redundancy prepared by Li Ji.

The refugees who are directly supported by the Wujun government on the "work-for-relief" basis, the captives who are "civil workers", and the Wujun soldiers from the top down, as long as they are without food for more than one day, the consequences will be disastrous!
That's not just a lack of wages, it's a lack of food!

It can be said that as long as there is a food shortage in Wu County, it will directly lead to the collapse of the entire Wu County's good situation in an instant.

Therefore, in this kind of decision-making that may involve millions of people at every turn, no matter how anxious Li Ji is, he can only wait for the information from Sichuan cautiously, and must not easily shake the basic market.

Li Ji took a deep breath and suppressed the worries and distracting thoughts in his heart. Instead, he still patiently wrote and perfected the specific implementation content of each area according to the catalog of Wu County Water Conservancy Planning Plan.

However, while Li Ji was writing on the slip, he still couldn't help but subconsciously estimate and calculate the food gap that Wujun would need if he wanted to carry out "work-for-relief".

Three hundred thousand dan!

At least 300,000 dan are needed...

It's just that Li Ji didn't know how much grain storage there was in Shuzhong now, and there was no way to use the "strategy simulator" to calculate the psychological price Liu Yan was willing to pay for a strategy of "breaking the earth and making the king". (End of chapter)

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